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Mythology from rivers

On this blog post, I'll talk about the old legends and myths from rivers. There are a lot of myths and fantastic stories about the rivers and their mysthic criatures, but in my opinion, the most interesting are from Greek Mythology.

It has several water Gods and other water criatures.

Sirens

They are stranges criatures who live near the water and sing nice songs. The contemporary sirens are different from Greek ones. Greek sirens have bird's wings and they are so pretty too. The sirens that we know have a tail fish and they are also pretty.

Greek sirene
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These sirens appear at The Oddissey, by Homer. It explains the adventures of Ulysses.

Water Gods

Poseidon
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Titans were twelve divine beings that ruled the earth in Greek mythology. They were associated with the big elements from our planet, like water, earth or oceans.
Oceanus and Thetys were the titans who ruled over the water. Oceanus has a human body, serpent tail, barbe and horns. He ruled over the oceans. Her sister, Thetys, ruled over all rivers. They married each other and had 3000 children. One of them was Poseidon, the God of the Sea.




Styx

River Styx
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Styx was a divinity who ruled over the river Styx. This river was created at the Titans war time, and all gods had an oath with it. This river divided the Earth and the Underworld.

Naiads (water nimphs)

Naiad
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Nimphs are female entities that had different forms. Naiads were the water nimphs. They lived in fountains, waterfalls, marshes, ponds and lagoons. They were known by their jealous nature and they had a lot of stories about affairs with strong and brave men.









Now, you can play this video. It explains more about Greeks mythology.

History.com

Conclusions:
There are a lot of fantastic legends related with water and rivers and which describe strange and happy adventures of love, desire and revenge beetwen the Gods and humans. Ancient greeks had a lot of imagination and faith with their divinities.

Webgraphy:

http://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/greek-mythology

http://www.lenntech.com/water-mythology.htm